Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: The Forge
The Forge was a website co-founded by me and others to discover and promote creatively owned (independent) publishing for roleplaying games. It included an extensive forum and many articles. I was the primary founder and moderator, as well as the organizer for the associated booth at GenCon. The site lasted from its original version in 1999 through 2012. It is still available for viewing at indie-rpgs.com/archive (2000-2008) and indie-rpgs.com/forge (2008-2012), as well as a brief successor forum at indie-rpgs.com/adept (2012-2016).
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Sparks flying still
Here’s one of those days when I feel like “it” (and what other “it” could I be talking about) was worth it. When people actually play and actually design, and put some thought into what others may have thought or done. When they care more about those things than about new hotness or hordes of…
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Conversation: There and back again
Andy Goodman’s Expedition to the Grizzly Peaks podcast is a worthy artifact – essentially, this guy missed all the ins & outs of the role-playing scene for about twenty years, mid-80s to mid-00s, and now he’s looking at today’s scene in mingled love, curiosity, and understandable bemusement. Evidently, my name appeared during his investigations, so…
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Indie alternative innovative newschool same-old same-old
Fabien Hildwein is one of the enthusiastic participants in the francophone sector of role-playing discourse and design. The thread back to me is probably Christoph Boeckle, who dropped a lot of time and buckets of posts at the Forge, and at some point along the way prompted a similar site (SilentDrift) and scene among French…
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Interview: Fummelpodden at Lincon
This is the very kind interview with Lucas Falk, including Peter Malmberg as fellow guest. Late in the evening during Lincon, Lucas found a corridor which seemed quiet, pulled some interesting high-backed, well-padded chairs into a curiously intimate small circle, and commenced to interview there. We did not expect that most of Linköping would then…
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Journal of a (post) Forgist designer made in Italy
Last October 31st, I went to the first conference of the Italian role-playing games authors, which has been held during the Lucca Comics & Games 2018 fair, and to which I partook with a small speech with the same title of this post, and with the following abstract: Six years apart from the closure of…
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Interview: Independent publishing, latter days – the sequel
This interview is from November 2017, almost exactly a year later than the Metatopia interview with Maksim Mohammedov, and a good comparison with it. You’ll see how both Vigil and Adept Play have emerged from the earlier points.
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Interview: Independent publishing, latter days
This is an interview of me by Maksim Muhammedov, during Metatopia, November 2016.